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Huachuca, Arizona, in 1934, she grew up near Los Angeles under the spell of her parents' jazz and blues record collection, which also included
268:, was published and Cortez went on to become the author of 11 other books of poems, and performed her poetry with music on nine recordings. Most of her work was issued under the auspices of Bola Press, a publishing company she founded in 1971. From 1977 to 1983, Cortez was an English teacher for
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player and poignant currents of wistfulness during "Sacred Trees" and "I Wonder Who". Additionally, this album contains a convincing ode to anti-militarism in "War
Devoted to War" and the close-to-the-marrow mini-manifestos "Samba Is Power" and "Find Your Own Voice". In 1996, her album
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2011:. "Setting Agitprop Poetry To the Beat of Current Jazz",
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Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
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1388:"Sun, 05.10.1936: Jayne Cortez, Poet, and Musician born"
1297:"Jayne Cortez Dies: Poet And Activist Passes Away At 78"
1967:. Selinsgrove, Pa: Susquehanna University Press, 2008.
1913:"After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
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1915:. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
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1871:. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004.
1920:Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature
1544:"Poet-performer Jayne Cortez dies in NY at age 78"
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1991:. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
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2022:. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.
1639:https://doi.org/10.5816/blackscholar.43.1-2.0026
1061:Find Your Own Voice: Poetry and Music, 1982–2003
1980:"A MELUS Profile and Interview: Jayne Cortez",
1442:, Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc.
1343:"Poet Jayne Cortez has not been gone that long"
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1029:Poetry & Music: Women in (E)Motion Festival
950:On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems
392:. Parallels with the ugly/beautiful poetics of
1922:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
1905:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
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1326:"Jayne Cortez Dead: Poet-Performer Dies At 78"
1314:Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers
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2005:. Tuscaloosa: Alabama University Press, 2004.
1998:. Lexington: Kentucky University Press, 1990.
1949:. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011.
1125:Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future
779:Pissstained Stairs and the Monkey Man's Wares
597:Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future
405:Pissstained stairs and the Monkey Man's Wares
301:In 1975, she married sculptor and printmaker
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2127:"Artists On The Cutting Edge: Jayne Cortez"
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2073:. "Jayne Cortez: the Unsubmissive Blues",
1927:Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present
1888:. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 2004.
1517:. The Pennsylvania State University. 2007.
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895:. Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books. 1997.
2117:at poets.org, Academy of American Poets
1970:McCarthy, Albert J. "Jazz and Poetry",
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1718:"Cortez, Jayne 1936– | Awards, Honors"
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1652:"Tribute to Jayne Cortez & a Poem"
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1328:, HuffPost Celebrity, January 5, 2013.
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2058:. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
1453:"Literary Women With Roots In Africa"
1155:"Jayne Cortez, Jazz Poet, Dies at 78"
238:when she was 18 years old. Their son
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1616:Kringle, Dawoud (February 7, 2012),
1390:, African American Registry (AAREG).
1365:. July 22, 1982 – via YouTube.
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835:Coagulations: New and Selected Poems
756:International African Festival Award
520:In 1991, along with Ghanaian writer
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3946:20th-century American women writers
2056:Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History
1932:Ford, Karen. "On Cortez's Poetry".
1828:, mediasanctuary, October 23, 2010.
1821:Jayne Cortez, "Find Your Own Voice"
1810:, mediasanctuary, October 23, 2010.
1742:Natambu, Kofi (December 30, 2012).
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403:(1971), while not as well known as
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1838:Torres, Roselly (March 15, 2020).
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1208:"Jayne Cortez | Encyclopedia.com"
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1082:TV Series (David J. Burke, 1993)
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952:. Hanging Loose Press. 2009.
914:. Hanging Loose Press. 2002.
601:Slave Routes: The Long Memory
3515:Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
1774:. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
1552:. Saturday, January 5, 2012.
1131:Femmes du Jazz/Women in Jazz
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3996:American Book Award winners
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3941:20th-century American poets
3179:Mill Hunk Herald Collective
1670:, George Padmore Institute.
1668:"A Tribute to Jayne Cortez"
1491:. Michigan State University
1266:. Friday, October 26, 2007.
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3571:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
2083:"Music: Poetry and Jazz",
1881:. London: Routledge, 2000.
1768:Taking the Blues Back Home
1376:"Jayne Cortez (1934–2012)"
1249:. Friday, January 4, 2013.
1178:"Jayne Cortez | 1934–2012"
1055:Borders of Disorderly Time
1041:Taking the Blues Back Home
828:Merveilleux Coup de Foudre
469:Borders of Disorderly Time
465:Taking the Blues Back Home
409:Celebrations and Solitudes
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2093:. "Unsubmissive Blues",
1960:. London: Ashgate, 2014.
1282:Encyclopaedia Britannica
1119:Ornette: Made in America
843:112pp. UK: Pluto, 1985,
524:, Cortez co-founded the
292:Poems for the Millennium
2793:Septima Poinsette Clark
2783:Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
1934:Modern American Poetry.
1549:The Washington Examiner
1438:March 23, 2013, at the
1432:"OWWA's First 20 Years"
1348:New York Amsterdam News
1264:San Francisco Chronicle
36:Sallie Jayne Richardson
4046:Poets from Los Angeles
4031:Musicians from Arizona
3981:African-American poets
2402:Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
2033:. 6.1–2 (1982): 73–76.
1894:. "Everywhere Drums",
1599:Osabutey, Phyllis D.,
788:Festivals and Funerals
674:and The Firespitters.
413:White Plains, New York
401:Festivals and Funerals
328:Poetry and performance
214:Fort Huachuca, Arizona
149:(m. 1954–1964, div.);
54:Fort Huachuca, Arizona
4061:Verve Records artists
3237:José Antonio Burciaga
3212:A'Lelia Perry Bundles
3184:Nora Marks Dauenhauer
2502:Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
2366:Ronald Phillip Tanaka
2206:Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
2040:. 13.1 (2005): 13–16.
2001:Nielsen, Aldon Lynn.
1984:. 21.1 (1996): 71–79.
1942:. 21.2 (1995): 96–97.
1748:The Panopticon Review
1489:MSU Libraries Catalog
1005:Giorno Poetry Systems
839:Thunder's Mouth Press
761:Langston Hughes Medal
394:Federico GarcĂa Lorca
204:, and New York City.
111:small press publisher
4016:American women poets
3814:E. Donald Two-Rivers
3687:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
3662:Guillermo Gómez-Peña
3349:Francisco X. AlarcĂłn
3222:Benjamin Alire Sáenz
3090:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
3051:José Emilio González
2986:William Minoru Hohri
2956:J. California Cooper
2797:Cynthia Stokes Brown
2617:Robert Edward Duncan
2525:Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
2247:Bienvenido N. Santos
2171:American Book Awards
2077:. 230 (1990): 16–19.
2043:Ruffin, Kimberly N.
2015:March 25, 1991: C14.
1875:Benston, Kimberly W.
1867:Anderson III, T. J.
1534:, Summer-Fall, 2008.
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1212:www.encyclopedia.com
1100:(Sanctuary TV, 2010)
1094:(Sanctuary TV, 2010)
1088:(Sanctuary TV, 2010)
995:Smithsonian Folkways
933:. Bola Press. 2007.
876:. Bola Press. 1994.
857:. Bola Press. 1991.
781:. Phrase Text. 1969.
704:Linton Kwesi Johnson
642:, Genna Rae McNeil,
564:, LaTasha N. Diggs,
305:, and they lived in
200:, and they lived in
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3159:Karen Tei Yamashita
3071:Michelle T. Clinton
2911:Alma Luz Villanueva
2848:Jimmy Santiago Baca
2778:Juan Felipe Herrera
2517:Ruthanne Lum McCunn
2361:Lorna Dee Cervantes
2201:Leslie Marmon Silko
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2087:. June 9, 1970: 36.
2067:, November 5, 2004.
1925:Feinstein, Sascha.
1918:Feinstein, Sascha.
1461:, October 16, 1997.
1295:Greenhough, Chris,
1098:Find Your Own Voice
912:Jazz Fan Looks Back
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808:. Bola Press. 1977.
799:. Bola Press. 1973.
790:. Bola Press. 1971.
732:American Book Award
710:, Deirdre Pascall,
698:, Denardo Coleman,
696:Jean "Binta" Breeze
652:George Campbell Jr.
593:New York University
568:, Donette Francis,
287:Daughters of Africa
186:Black Arts Movement
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3738:Brenda Marie Osbey
3425:Lawson Fusao Inada
3282:Verlyn Klinkenborg
3188:Richard Dauenhauer
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2535:Venkatesh Kulkarni
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2095:Small Press Review
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2881:Salvatore La Puma
2392:Barbara Christian
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2328:Hilton Obenzinger
2292:Toni Cade Bambara
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1896:The Black Scholar
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1567:Repeating Islands
1532:The Black Scholar
1472:The Black Scholar
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3080:Miles Davis
3046:John Norton
2926:Carolyn Lau
2921:Audre Lorde
2895:Tek Lum Lum
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2468:Gary Snyder
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2191:Edward Dorn
2102:Echo Online
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1727:January 18,
1105:Filmography
1011:There It Is
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969:Discography
815:Firespitter
440:There It Is
421:Strata-East
382:Henry Dumas
255:Mississippi
221:Los Angeles
133:Strata-East
92:Occupations
3915:Categories
3861:Trey Ellis
3804:Brian Ward
3748:Jim Barnes
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3119:bell hooks
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1187:March 31,
1182:poets.org
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322:Manhattan
208:Biography
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